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Conference virke::mrmemo

Title:	VAX MAILGATE for MEMO

Moderator:	STKHLM::OLSSON

Created:	Sat Feb 25 1989
Last Modified:	Tue May 14 1996
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	216
Total number of notes:	933

180.0. "Given name problem" by EEMELI::VESALAINEN (DECnet Phase V = OSI for the Masses) Wed Jun 02 1993 14:06

    The Finnish Telecom has user club for their X.400 users. It's
    called MAILNET-club.
    
    One of the charter of this club is to maintain a bug list of
    X.400 related bugs in different MHS systems, which are connected
    to MAILNET.
    
    One of the bugs is MRMEMO releated.
    
    Message is sent to MEMO user through MRX and MRMEMO.
    If the originators given name has two parts (for example: aila helena),
    the memo users is not able to reply to the message (at least the
    message is not delivered).
    
    Any ideas how this could be fixed?

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180.1 Might be possible to patch STKHLM::OLSSON Anders Olsson, SIP Sweden Thu Jun 03 1993 16:51 22

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180.1	Might be possible to patch	STKHLM::OLSSON	Anders Olsson, SIP Sweden	`Thu Jun 03 1993 16:51`	22
	.0> Message is sent to MEMO user through MRX and MRMEMO. .0> If the originators given name has two parts (for example: aila helena), .0> the memo users is not able to reply to the message (at least the .0> message is not delivered). This probably happens because MRMEMO searches for a blank character in the userid that the MEMO user is sending (i.e. replying) to. If a blank is found, the parts are then used to create givenname and surname. So, if the MEMO user is sending to "VAX.AILA__HELENA__KOSKINEN..MBX..NODE", MRMEMO will use "AILA" for givenname and "HELENA KOSKINEN" as surname. .0> Any ideas how this could be fixed? I think I could make a patch that changes MRMEMO to use the last instead of the first blank as givenname/surname separator. Then, however, it will probably not be possible to reply to messages from someone with blanks in the surname (e.g. Marc Van Hooste). Do you think that the customer would be interested in such a patch? Anders

    
.0> Message is sent to MEMO user through MRX and MRMEMO.
.0> If the originators given name has two parts (for example: aila helena),
.0> the memo users is not able to reply to the message (at least the
.0> message is not delivered).

    This probably happens because MRMEMO searches for a blank character in
    the userid that the MEMO user is sending (i.e. replying) to. If a blank
    is found, the parts are then used to create givenname and surname.
    So, if the MEMO user is sending to "VAX.AILA__HELENA__KOSKINEN..MBX..NODE",
    MRMEMO will use "AILA" for givenname and "HELENA KOSKINEN" as surname.

.0> Any ideas how this could be fixed?

    I think I could make a patch that changes MRMEMO to use the last instead
    of the first blank as givenname/surname separator. Then, however, it will
    probably not be possible to reply to messages from someone with blanks
    in the surname (e.g. Marc Van Hooste).

    Do you think that the customer would be interested in such a patch?

    Anders